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New Delhi: Google is reportedly testing a new ad feature for Google Fiber that will bring Internet-like ads on the TV. The local advertising service will collect data from the set-top-boxes about the number of times a particular ad was watched in homes with Google Fiber.
Unlike the standard policy of...

New Delhi: Cable operators have shown interest in providing broadband connectivity to consumers by tweaking technology - a move that will increase Internet penetration in the country, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said. "I am very excited to note that lot of cable operators have come forward to...

UK's Secretary of State for Business Vince Cable's visit to India focussed on business and Indian students. Cable was on a week-long visit to dispel myths that the UK is not welcoming to Indian students and spread the message that 'Britain is open for Business'.
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New Delhi: Samsung has launched a new Power Sharing Cable that lets users charge micro USB devices with a Galaxy phone or tablet. In other words, with this cable, users can transfer power directly from their compatible Samsung device to any micro USB compatible device including a wearable, smartphone, tablet,...

Madurai: The Tamil Nadu government cable TV corporation would hold talks with cable TV operators and Theni on September 29 over the government's scheme to provide broadband and internet services through local cable TV operators' network.
An official release said the cable TV corporation is to join hands with Indian...

Gurgaon: A man was on Saturday electrocuted while five others were injured when they came in contact with a highvoltage underground electric cable, police said.
Nearly a dozen labourers hired by a private contractor were digging for a water pipeline near the Fazilpur Chowk.
At least six people came accidentally in contact...

New Delhi: Heavy rain in many parts of Delhi disrupted arrangements for listening to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech live in a number of government schools.
The rain began soon after Modi started his speech at the Manekshaw Centre from where it was telecast on Doordarshan.
The schools were asked to...

Chennai: In major relief for the Maran brothers, the Madras High Court on Friday set aside the Information & Broadcasting Minister's orders to cancel the licence of their enterprise Kal Cables.
The HC judge cited nonissuance of show cause notice as the reason behind its judgement.
While cancelling the licence of...

New Delhi: Government has decided to junk advertisements which told consumers that their TV screens would go blank if they do not buy Set Top Boxes before the deadline for Digitisation and would instead try to convince the viewers of benefits of converting to the new system.
I&B minister Manish Tewari...

New York: Don't expect major changes to how you access your favourite websites and services despite a federal appeals court's decision to set aside rules meant to ensure equal access to entertainment, news and other online content.
Major cable providers already have pledged not to do the kinds of things the...

With the cases of power cabletheft on the rise, the Rajasthan Police have appointed "winddragons" a dedicated force who will keep roundtheclockvigil in the border district of Jaisalmer to check thecrime.About 120 Home Guards, called "wind dragons", have beenappointed in the area of Sujlone Energy Ltd, Jaisalmer SPHemant...

Two days after Reliance Jio signed an MoU with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation for laying out 4G network in the city, Airtel also followed suit on Thursday.
Airtel's eastern region CEO PG Sharma signed an MoU with KMC to lay 400 km of optical fibre cable in the city. Sharma said...

New Delhi: Cable TV operators in more than 40 major cities will now have to mandatorily show 21 Doordarshan and three other channels to their consumers.
Sources told PTI that the Information and Broadcasting ministry has issued a notification as per which cable operators must show...

In a significant step aimed at ushering in transparency in the way cable TV consumers are billed, the multiple system operators (MSOs) are rolling out a direct billing system from August.
As of now, the monthly charges for cable TV connections were being collected by the local area cable operators, who...

Whistleblower Bradley Manning responsible for the leak of US diplomatic cables is found not guilty of aiding the enemy, however the Military court found him guilty of most other charges including 5 counts of theft. The US soldier was responsible for the largest ever leak of 7 lakh sheets...

New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) deadline for switching to digitised TV ends on Tuesday. All those with cable connections may face a blackout after Tuesday. Cable operators were supposed to file customer details and their choice of television channels with the TRAI board by Tuesday. However,...

New Delhi: India is set to take a giant leap in connectivity as work begins soon on a grand, Rs 20,000crore ($3.3 billion) project to link its 250,000 village councils with highspeed data cables to take egovernance to the grassroots and facilitate eservices in fields ranging from education to entertainment...

London: Britain's spy agency GCHQ has tapped fibreoptic cables that carry international phone and internet traffic and is sharing vast quantities of personal information with the US National Security Agency, the Guardian newspaper said on Friday.
The paper, which has in recent weeks been publishing details of topsecret surveillance programs exposed...

New Delhi: The Centre, BCCI and a TV channel have been directed by the Delhi High Court to respond to a PIL alleging that Indian Premium League (IPL) platform was used for promotion of liquor brands and it was aired by the channel in violation of law.
A division bench of...

New Delhi: India's cable makers face a severe shortage of copper and potential manufacturing delays after the closure of the country's two biggest copper smelters, which has pushed up prices and led to a spike in imports.
India's biggest smelter, owned by Sterlite Industries, was shut on March 30 after local...

New Delhi: A consortium of global telecom majors, including Reliance Jio Infocomm and Vodafone, today signed an agreement for constructing the Bay of Bengal Gateway submarine cable system that will link Malaysia and Singapore to the Middle East with connections in India and Sri Lanka.
The cable system is likely...

New Delhi: Reliance Industries' telecommunications arm will use Bharti Airtel's submarine cable network to provide data connectivity across Asia Pacific, the two Indian companies said on Tuesday.
The i2i cable network connects India to Singapore and is wholly owned by Bharti, India's top mobile phone carrier. Bharti and Reliance Jio Infocomm...

New Delhi: The process of full digitisation of cable TV systems in the country is expected to be over well before the end of the current fiscal given a sharp surge in the installation of settop boxes by large distributors, a report has said.
The large cable TV distributors, known...

New Delhi: The Maulana Azad Medical College finds a rare mention in a US diplomatic cable during Henry Kissinger era which says that the hospital caters to around 3,000 out patients daily. In a cable to Washington, the then US Ambassador Daniel Moynihan said Dr Hari Vaishnava, professor of medicine,...

New Delhi: The US Embassy cables accessed by WikiLeaks have claimed that there were three assassination attempts on late former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's second son Sanjay Gandhi. A 1976 dispatch says Sanjay was the target of an unknown assailant in a "well planned assassination attempt" during the Emergency.
It...

New Delhi: AK Antony was "one of the only" leaders apart from Priyaranjan Dasmunsi who "flatly criticised" Sanjay Gandhi during 1976 AICC session in Guwahati during Emergency when the latter's political graph was on the rise, US diplomatic cables have claimed. The cables, made public by Wikileaks, also said the...